Lynne Rudder Baker is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications include Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View (2000) and Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind (1995).
Introduction
1. Beginning with the middle
Part I. Everyday Things: 2. The reality of ordinary things
3. Artifacts
4. Human persons
Part II. The Everyday World: 5. Commonsense causation
6. Metaphysical vagueness
7. Time
Part III. Metaphysical Underpinnings: 8. Constitution revisited
9. Mereology and constitution
10. Three-dimensionalism defended
11. Five ontological issues.